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A young boy stands amid the ruins of a classroom in Douma destroyed during the Syrian civil war.
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Responsibility to Protect: An unfulfilled promise, a ray of hope

The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect – a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, “a moral imperative” and “an unfulfilled promise.”